Best of the Program | Guest: Richard Landes | 9/22/26

Glenn Beck (0:00)

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You're listening to The Best of The Glenn Beck Program. All right, now I want you to listen to this, the craziest damn thing I've read in a while. Young woman standing in a long white shirt, skirt. Her name is Karina. She's one of the biggest pop stars in Korea. She's holding a pair of black Converse high tops above her, a spotlight. And the spotlight is cut into the shape of the Converse star. Wow.

Now, how could you find anything controversial about this? Don't worry, you live in America. Somebody found it.

That's the ad. That's the whole ad. Went up September 3rd. For two weeks, millions of people saw it, nobody said a word, nobody had a problem with it. But you didn't have enough time on your hands. You probably have a life. There's somebody out there without a life at all, who was like, I'm gonna find something about this.

Everybody else saw a girl and shoes.

But then somebody with absolutely no life studied the lighting. And the edge of that star I told you about, it fell across her skirt and made a white triangle. And somebody decided that triangle looked exactly like a clan hood. And the shoes that she was holding into her hand, right next to that clan hood, which wasn't a clan hood, it was a spotlight triangle shadow. Those shoes she was holding next to it looked like she was, it was the feet of a lynching victim.

So we have a Korean pop star, a sneaker, and a spotlight.

Stu Burguiere (3:51)

Oh, man.

Glenn Beck (3:55)

Right?

You know, we used to say that evil hides in the shadows. We don't look at the shadows anymore. We don't look into the shadows. We look at the shadows now. We pull them up into the light, and we interrogate the actual shadow, not what's lurking in the shadows. Within hours, the machine was running. Fire the staff, boycott the company. A sitting congressman, Troy Carter of Louisiana said, I want an apology. In fact, an apology isn't enough. He wants Nike and Converse to name those responsible and a commission, an independent investigation, over a shadow.

Pardon me for a second. Dear Lord, seriously, take me now. Just take me now. Because I don't know how much more I can do of this. I really don't.

Signed Glenn. Love you. All right, back to the show. Then a civil rights attorney named Lee Merritt said, You know, we keep having this conversation because corporations keep failing the same test.

Stu Burguiere (5:22)

I really want to know, Lee.

Glenn Beck (5:24)

What test? What test? The shadow test?

You took a photograph, you cropped it, if you squint the right way, and you ask one question, and that question is, do I want to be offended? Could I be offended? The answer is always yes. That's why nobody passes. Nobody. You know, look at that cloud. Doesn't that cloud look like Hitler? It's a cloud. No, it's oppression in the sky. That cloud is oppressing me. A tree fails it. Your kitchen fails it if the morning sunlight hits the dish towel just right.